Should cities provide toilets for Wall Street protestors?

It is a problem, after all — where to answer nature’s call when you’re camped out overnight at a demonstration. Many of the Occupy Wall Street protestors in various cities are solving that problem as best they can, to the dismay of nearby residents.

According to the AP, “Fed up with petty crime, the all-night racket of beating drums, the smell of human waste and the sight of trampled flowers and grass, police and neighbors are losing patience with some of the anti-Wall Street protests around the U.S.”

Some cities are cracking down on the demonstrators while others are trying to work with them. Should any cooperation along those lines include public toilets — installed and maintained by local cities?

Demonstrators say that would allow them to continue to exercise their First Amendment rights.

Yet critics say that would shift from tolerating the protestors to supporting them.